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Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, And The Quotidian Academic Terror Of “Christian Nationalism”

February 23, 2023 — By editors

The following essay appeared recently in The New Polis. It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism?

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Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)

September 15, 2018 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. A non-Paulinian theology understands the Law not as a whole but as

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Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)

September 6, 2018 — By editors

> I am wondering if the agony of years > Could be traced to the seed of an hour > If the roots that spread out in the swamp > Ran too deep for the issuing

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Announcing “The New Polis” – An E-Publication On Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis, And Political Thought

March 16, 2018 — By editors

The directors of The Whitestone Foundation, the Colorado-based 501(c)3 non-profit corporation that has published The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

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Religious Autonomy As Secularism’s Silent Partner (Darshan Datar)

May 31, 2017 — By editors

Scholarship has noted that the genealogical trajectory of a state has consistently had an impact on the evolution of state-church relationships It highlights

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Review – Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities (Dean Dettloff)

May 25, 2017 — By Dean Dettloff

*Bernico, Matt, and Kölke, Manuela (Eds.). Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities. New York: Atropos Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1940813085 It

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Review – New Trends In The Theory And Methods For Studying Religion (David Kim)

December 29, 2016 — By editors

Kovács, Ábrahám, and James L. Cox, Editors. New Trends and Recurring Issues in the Study of Religion: Context and Overview. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014

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Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)

November 17, 2016 — By John Matthew Allison

*Laruelle, François. General Theory of Victims. Translated by Jessie Hock and Alex Dubilet. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0745679617 It highlights

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Review – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)

August 4, 2016 — By Timothy Snediker

*Culp, Andrew. Dark Deleuze (Forerunners: Ideas First). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN 10: 1517901332 Paperback, e-book It highlights

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Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 3 (Padraic Fitzgerald)

June 21, 2016 — By editors

The following is the third and final installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here It highlights

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Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)

May 31, 2016 — By editors

The term “political theology” is currently used in a variety of ways in current debate over the place of liberalism amid world crises in politics and It

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Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)

May 27, 2016 — By editors

Biopolitics, as Michel Foucault argued, views populations through an economic lens, as capital to be preserved and multiplied to keep the nation or tradition

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Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions

April 8, 2016 — By editors

The just-released, multi-volume Norton Anthology of World Religions is a major project of substance undertaken by a group of world-renowned scholars in

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